heaviness

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Noun
the property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead"
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persisting sadness; "nothing lifted the heaviness of her heart after her loss"
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an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency; "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"; "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"
Noun
used of a line or mark
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unwelcome burdensome difficulty